Comment President Trump ... (Score 0, Flamebait) 186
... is not connected with reality.
Even America is beginning to realize that his connection with reality is virtual.
Comment Having a spreadsheet with 20M cells .. (Score 1) 85
--. is criminally insane.
It should be in a database.
Who ever created it should be ordered to check all the calculations with a 1960's mechanical calculator each time there is an update.
Comment And there was I thinking ... (Score 1) 80
... The whole point of AI is to fake things!
Submission + - Captcha and Locale
Anne Thwacks writes: Google's Captcha fails to account for locale. Eg: we do not have crosswalks, we have Zebra crossings.
However, that is not the most serious problem with Captcha: when they say "bicycles" does that include or exclude motorcycles? does it include or exclude parts of a bicycle? (Or staircase, or bus) if parts, how small are the parts? Does the last 3mm of a handlebar count as a bicycle? Does just the wing mirror count as a whole bus? Does a quarter of the bottom step count as a staircase? and why are the pictures so small and blurry on my 4k screen that I can't actually tell what is in the picture anyway? Why can't the pictures scale to the window? Some people have 8k screens. It is not 2010 any more!
Now Google says I am a robot, and won't let me read my own mail. Is this cruel and inhuman torture according to any known legislation? Are Google fit to be in charge of anything at all? What can be done about this?
However, that is not the most serious problem with Captcha: when they say "bicycles" does that include or exclude motorcycles? does it include or exclude parts of a bicycle? (Or staircase, or bus) if parts, how small are the parts? Does the last 3mm of a handlebar count as a bicycle? Does just the wing mirror count as a whole bus? Does a quarter of the bottom step count as a staircase? and why are the pictures so small and blurry on my 4k screen that I can't actually tell what is in the picture anyway? Why can't the pictures scale to the window? Some people have 8k screens. It is not 2010 any more!
Now Google says I am a robot, and won't let me read my own mail. Is this cruel and inhuman torture according to any known legislation? Are Google fit to be in charge of anything at all? What can be done about this?
Comment Microsoft ... and AI ... fixes vulnerabilities (Score 3, Insightful) 18
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment Re:A useful skill to have. (Score 0) 245
Cursive IS hand writing. I think you are confusing it with italic.
I think American schools should probably teach something. It seems fairly evident that they are not even doing that at present.
Comment Re:MBA school must consist of memorizing BS... (Score 1) 69
Microsoft to focus on the other things that matter too, such as stability and power user enhancements.
Hell has finally frozen over?
Comment Re:agentic OS? (Score 2) 69
Am I going to have to start finding ways to make my OS do what I ask instead of what some marketer thinks people like me want it to do?
That won't be an option if MS gets is way!
Comment Re:"Windows is evolving into an agentic OS," (Score 2) 69
I just really wish that the world could just pick one distro and go with it.
And you wish the only car on the market was a Frod F150?
Comment Re:You are not an engineer. (Score 3, Insightful) 100
If you thought that, you are probably American, and therefore badly educated.
In most of the world, an engineer designs engines - and/or their control systems. (Whether petrol, steam, or electric - or even hydrogen).
Comment Re:of course the question not asked: why? (Score 1) 54
dissolve Hyundai and 130,000 people lose their jobs because a criminal managed to break into a database?
No. Because the company collected the data in the first place. "In a database" is a place where criminals are likely to devote enormous resources to stealing it, and which they are unlikely to be able to protect adequately. On top of which, exactly 0 customers want their details to be stored.
Comment Re:of course the question not asked: why? (Score 1) 54
Until the penalties for data loss exceed the value OF the firms (not just car companies)
FTFY
Comment I Blame ... (Score 1) 25
... Larry Ellison!
Submission + - Is Google/YouTube ripping off advertisers? 1
Anne Thwacks writes: I have been on YouTube since it started, and I have never clicked on an advert. Not once. I was taught by my grandmother "if they need to pay for advertising, what they are selling must be terrible!" (OK, this was in the 1950's when food, clothing and everything else was rationed — but hunger is hard to forget).
However, If I go on YouTube, I am literally pounded with adverts, even though YouTube know I won't click. I am a pensioner — I can't afford to pay for the stuff, even if I did want it. But advertisers are paying for it — and I know its not cheap — my employers used to buy Google Ads.
Google Ads are pocketing the money — knowing it won't ever sell anything. How is this not theft?
However, If I go on YouTube, I am literally pounded with adverts, even though YouTube know I won't click. I am a pensioner — I can't afford to pay for the stuff, even if I did want it. But advertisers are paying for it — and I know its not cheap — my employers used to buy Google Ads.
Google Ads are pocketing the money — knowing it won't ever sell anything. How is this not theft?
Comment Re:Idiocracy is spot on (Score 2) 111
Clearly a problem world-wide.
Not so clear what to do about it, although education helps in some countries.
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